US1410132A - Grain-spout holder - Google Patents

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E. c. STARNES AND E. c. WILLIS.

GRAIN SPOUT HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.H, 1920..

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

INVEJV T0115 i w x w 3 rt lwir ATTORAE':

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EARL G. STARNES AND EDWARD C. WILLIS, OF ALPHA, MINNESOTA.

To (ZZZ in 710m it may concern:

Be it known that we, EARL C. STARNES and EDWARD C. \VILLis, citizens oi. the United States, residing at Alpha,- in the county of Jackson and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Grain- Spout Holder. of which the following is a specification.

Our inve tion relates to grain spout holding devices oi the kind used for holding a grain delivering spout in position while it fills a car ith' grain, and the object is to provide an improved device of this kind.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view of the improved device and a grain spout supported by it. i In said drawing 1 designates the delivery end of a grain spout, 2. said spout having near the end 1 a metallic loop handle 8. to which one end L, of a rope 5 is attached for purpose of supporting the spout. lhe rope is passed through a front aperture 6 and a rear aperture 7 in a staff 8, and then passed as a loop 5 between the stat'fl and part 5" of the rope so that the latter clamps the loop against the stat? and thereby holds he rope in any desired position.

The front end of the staff is provided with a large hook 9, having a sharp point 10 adapted to be engaged into or over any stationary element. represented by the cleat 11, in tl e car or its door casing or the-boards usually partly closing the door opening while the car is being tilled.

12 is metal ring loosely embracing the stall and the lower run 5 of the rope.

in the use of the device the hook 9 is engaged with a suitable part of. the car and the rope 5" pulled until the spout end is in the desired position for delivering grain at a given point; the rope is then secured by the loop which is easily untied in case the position of the spout is to be considerably changed. It the spout is simply to be raised some, the ring 12 is moved closer Specification of Letters Patent. Patented :Mar, 21, 1922, Application filed August 17, 1920.

Serial No. 404,263.

to the spent, and it the spout is to be lowered the ring is pushed away from the spout so that the part 5 of the rope may get longer and be at liberty to swing downward with the spout.

. i rainy weather or other cause makes the rope so slippery that the loop 5 and rope 5 will slip, then the rope portion 5 may be taken an entire turn around the staff before the loop 5 is tucked into its place.

In contradistinction from earlier crude devices in the same line it will be noted among other advantages, that this device is independent of any outside means for holding the operated end of the rope, since the device itself holds it: the ring 12 provides means for much of the adjusting ot the spout and the sharp and open form of the hook enables it to be readily engaged over or into almost any object for supporting it.

lVhat we claim is:

1. In a device of the kind described, a staff having at one end a sharp metallic hook and in its body two spaced apertures, one of which being near the hook; a rope passed through said apertures; a grain deli'vering spout attached to one end of the rope in a position to be drawn by the r0 e toward the aperture nearest to the hoo the other end of the rope being readily securable to the stait near the other aperture.

2. The structure specified in claim 1. and

with a ring loosely embracing the staff and the strand of the rope extending from the spout to the aperture nearest tothe hook.

The structurespecified in claim 1, said securing; oi": the rope consisting of forming a eight in therope and inserting the same between the stall and the main body of the rope that extends between the two apertures. In testimony whereof we aiiix our signa tures.

EARL O. STARNES. EDWARD C. WILLIS.

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